Running Time: Approximately 100 minutes with no intermission.
The Balusters
A New Play by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Kenny Leon
with Marylouise Burke, Kayli Carter, Ricardo Chavira, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Margaret Colin, Michael Esper, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Anika Noni Rose, Richard Thomas, Jeena Yi
ON BROADWAY AT THE
SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE
2025-26 Season
The Vernon Point Neighborhood Association is a passionate bunch, whether squabbling over historically inaccurate porch railings or debating trash can protocol. Still, no one is prepared for the neighbor-versus-neighbor battle royale that ensues when a newcomer to the board suggests the unthinkable: installing a stop sign on the corner of the enclave’s prettiest block. Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner, Manhattan Theatre Club veteran, and master of antics David Lindsay-Abaire (Kimberly Akimbo, Rabbit Hole, Good People, Ripcord) and directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon (Othello, Our Town, Topdog Underdog, King James), The Balusters is a raucous, wild ride through a small community with big feelings.
The Balusters was commissioned by MTC through the Bank of America New Play Program and is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Production support is provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, and Jayne Baron Sherman and MTC Young Producing Partners.
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Cast
Marylouise Burke
Penny Buell
Marylouise Burke returns to MTC with frequent collaborator David Lindsay-Abaire, a partnership that began in 1999 with her Drama Desk Award-winning performance in Fuddy Meers. Marylouise was most recently seen on Broadway in True West with Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano. Previous Broadway credits include Into the Woods, Is He Dead?, Fish in the Dark. She appeared recently at London’s National Theatre in Annie Baker’s John and Infinite Life. Off-Broadway credits include Infinite Life (Atlantic); Epiphany; Everybody (OCC, Drama League nominations); Ripcord; Fuddy Meers (Drama Desk Award, Featured Actress); Kimberly Akimbo (OCC, Drama Desk nominations, Leading Actress); Savannah Disputation; American Sligo; Imagining the Imaginary Invalid; Love, Loss, and What I Wore. On television, she recently appeared in “Only Murders in the Building,” and recurred on “The Blacklist,” “New Amsterdam,” “Prodigal Son,” and “Ozark.” Films include I Know This Much Is True, Sideways, A Prairie Home Companion, Series 7, Must Love Dogs, Meet Joe Black, and Sleepwalk with Me. She was awarded the 2014 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.
Kayli Carter
Willow Gibbons
Kayli Carter is a New York-based actor and writer whose previous notable credits include Emmy-nominated shows “Mrs. America” (FX), “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon), “Godless” (Netflix), and the Focus Features film Let Him Go. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the Best Supporting Female category for her work in Tamara Jenkins’s Netflix feature Private Life. Her previous stage work includes Tom Hanks and James Glossman’s This World of Tomorrow, directed by Kenny Leon, Tracy Letts’s Mary Page Marlowe, directed by Lila Neugebauer, and On The Evolutionary Function of Shame. She originated the role of Flo in Mark Rylance’s Olivier Award-nominated comedy Nice Fish. She will be seen in the upcoming series “Vladimir” (20th Television, Netflix) opposite Rachel Weisz.
Ricardo Chavira
Isaac Rosario
Ricardo Chavira is a South Texas native whose acting career spans theater, film and television. His stage highlights include The Motherf**ker with the Hat at the National Theatre London and the Off-Broadway production of Jesus Hopped the A Train. U.S. regional theater credits include A Doll’s House, Shane, An Enemy of the People and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Guthrie Theater; also regionally Living Out, Tracers, Three Sisters, Dogeaters, ¡Bandido! and Macbeth. TV credits include “Ballard” on Amazon Prime, “Selena the Series” and “Glamorous” for Netflix, and Apple TV+’s “Truth Be Told” opposite Octavia Spencer. Past TV credits include “Scandal”; “Jane the Virgin”; “Santa Clarita Diet”; “Hawaii 5-0”; “Castle”; “Burn Notice”; “Welcome to the Family”; “Desperate Housewives,” garnering two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance Ensemble Comedy Series; “George Lopez”; “24”; “JAG”; NYPD Blue”; and “Six Feet Under.” Film credits include Being Charlie, Powder and Gold, Don’t Let Me Drown, The Alamo, Piranha 3-D, and Saving God. Chavira holds an M.F.A. in acting from the University of California, San Diego. For T and B, always.
Carl Clemons-Hopkins
Brooks Duncan
Carl Clemons-Hopkins is excited to make their Broadway debut at MTC! Off-Broadway credits include the world premieres of Lessons In Survival: 1971 (Vineyard Theatre) and For The Last Time (Theatre Row). Other theater credits include Dare: Scenes and Monologues for TNB2S+ Artists (Breaking the Binary Theatre), Hamilton (Chicago, 1st National), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Steppenwolf Theatre), Time is On Our Side (Simpatico Theatre), Richard III (People’s Light & Theatre Co.), Macbeth (Arden Theatre). Film: Candyman (2019), The Mattachine Family (2023). Television: “Chicago Med” (NBC); “Star Trek: Lower Decks” (CBS); “Hacks” (HBO), for which he received a 2021 Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.
Margaret Colin
Ruth Ackerman
Broadway: Jackie: An American Life (Theatre World Award), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Old Acquaintance (Drama League Award nomination), Arcadia, The Columnist, Carousel (Equity’s Richard Seff Award). Off-Broadway/Regional: Aristocrats (Drama Desk Award nomination), Psychopathia Sexualis, Defiance (Drama Desk Award nomination), Hamlet (Delacorte Theater), Salome, Betrayal (The Actors Studio), City of Conversation (Arena Stage; Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Pentagon Papers (China tour), Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Second Mrs. Wilson (Long Wharf), A Second of Pleasure (59E59), AdA (La Mama). Television: “Veep” (Screen Actors Guild Award), “Shades of Blue,” “Gossip Girl,” Margo on “As the World Turns,” “Now and Again,” “Leg Work,” “Sibs,” “The Wright Verdicts,” Hallmark’s “Three Wise Men” series, “Time to Say Goodbye?”, “Hit and Run,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Hope,” and “Blue Bloods.” Select Film: Independence Day, First Daughter, The Missing Person, Something Wild, and Unfaithful.
Michael Esper
Alan Kirby
Michael Esper has originated roles on Broadway and off in Appropriate (Hayes Theater); The Last Ship (The Ahmanson); American Idiot (St. James Theater); The Lyons (The Vineyard); The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…(The Public Theater); Lazarus (NY and West End); A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theater); Big Bill (LCT); The Four Of Us (MTC); The Agony and the Agony, Assistance, and Crazy Mary (all at Playwrights Horizons).
Other plays include A Man for All Seasons (The Roundabout), Suburbia (Second Stage), The Glass Menagerie (West End), Tales From Red Vienna (MTC), and Long Day’s Journey into Night (Dublin Theatre Festival).
In television, Series Regular roles include “Trust” (FX) and “Do No Harm” (NBC).
Recurring roles include the Amazon series Fallout, the recently released Peacock limited series Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. Other select TV credits include “The Outsider”, “Ray Donovan”, “Florida Man”, “The Family”, and “Shades of Blue.”
Feature film credits include Pavements, dir. Alex Ross Perry; Griffin In Summer, dir. Nicholas Colia; Beau is Afraid, dir. Ari Aster; The Creator, dir. Gareth Edwards; Resurrection, dir. Andrew Semans; Ben is Back, dir. Peter Hedges; Runner Runner, dir. Brad Furman; Frances Ha, dir. Noah Baumbach; All Good Things, dir. Andrew Jarecki; and A Beautiful Mind, dir. Ron Howard.
Maria-Christina Oliveras
Luz Baccay
Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy, Amélie, Machinal, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Persephone in the Broadway National Tour of Hadestown. Off-Broadway: Cymbeline (Drama Desk Award nomination); world premieres of Here Lies Love (The Public), A Woman Among Women, Pretty Filthy, Parable of the Sower (The Public), Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Music (St. Ann’s Warehouse/HBO Max). Regional: world premieres of Kiss My Aztec! (Berkeley Rep, La Jolla, Hartford Stage), Soft Power (Center Theater Group/Curran); Amélie (Center Theater Group/Berkeley Rep); El Huracán (Yale Rep), January Joiner (Long Wharf). Other credits include Romeo and Juliet (Public), Macbeth/As You Like It (HVSF), Zorba! (City Center/Encores), Williamstown, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington, Denver Center. Dedicated to new work, Maria-Christina has developed countless plays and musicals with Lincoln Center, MTC, NYTW, Signature, O’Neill, Atlantic, New Dramatists (Charles Bowden Award), among others. Selected Film/TV: St. Vincent, Manhattan Nocturne, “Blue Bloods,” “NCIS: NOLA,” “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order: SVU.”
Anika Noni Rose
Kyra Marshall
Broadway/Off-Broadway: Wonderful Town at NYCC; Uncle Vanya; Caroline, or Change (Tony, Lortel, Theatre World, Obie, Clarence Derwent winner; Drama Desk nomination); A Raisin in the Sun (Tony, OCC noms.); Carmen Jones (Lortel and AUDELCO Awards, Drama Desk and OCC nominations); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Footloose. Films: Zootopia 2, Afia in Mufasa: The Lion King, Tiana in The Princess and the Frog (Disney Legend), Dreamgirls, for colored girls…. TV: “The Mighty Nein,” “Let the Right One In,” “Maid,” “Power,” “Roots,” “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.” Books: Tiana’s Perfect Plan, A Princess Is a Princess, now available for pre-order.
Richard Thomas
Elliot Emerson
Richard Thomas starred as John-Boy Walton in the television drama “The Waltons,” for which he won an Emmy Award and received multiple Golden Globe Award nominations. He is best known to television audiences for his roles in the hit series “Ozark,” “The Americans,” “Billions,” and the original adaptation of Stephen King’s “IT.” His feature film performances include The Unforgiveable, Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys, and Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. Thomas received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes. He has been seen in acclaimed performances on stage including Our Town, You Can’t Take It With You, The Great Society, Race, Democracy, Incident at Vichy (Drama Desk Award nomination), The Stendhal Syndrome (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, An Enemy of the People, Tiny Alice, The Front Page, Fifth Of July, innumerable Shakespeare productions, and his professional debut at eight years old in Sunrise At Campobello. He has starred in the national tours of The Humans (Elliot Norton Award), Twelve Angry Men, and for three years as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill A Mockingbird.
Jeena Yi
Melissa Han
Jeena is an Actor and Playwright born in Los Angeles but now calls New York City home. Broadway: Network. Off-Broadway: The Beastiary (Ars Nova), Good Enemy (Audible), Daphne (LCT3), Judgement Day (Park Ave Armory), Cymbeline (NAATCO), Somebody’s Daughter (2nd Stage). Regional: HeartSellers (Studio DC), Today is My Birthday, GIRLS (Yale Rep), Vietgone (OSF/Seattle Rep). TV/Film: Nyad (Netflix), “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu), “The Resident” (Fox), “Succession” (HBO).
Jeena made her playwriting debut Off-Broadway with Ma-Yi at The Public Theater in Spring 2026. @JeenaYi
Marylouise Burke
Penny Buell
Kayli Carter
Willow Gibbons
Ricardo Chavira
Isaac Rosario
Carl Clemons-Hopkins
Brooks Duncan
Margaret Colin
Ruth Ackerman
Michael Esper
Alan Kirby
Maria-Christina Oliveras
Luz Baccay
Anika Noni Rose
Kyra Marshall
Richard Thomas
Elliot Emerson
Jeena Yi
Melissa Han
Melody Butiu
u/s Luz Baccay
Broadway: The Queen of Versailles (Sofia), Here Lies Love (Estrella), Doctor Zhivago. Off-Broadway/regional includes The Public Theater, Emerson Colonial, Arena Stage, Huntington, Geffen Playhouse, TUTS, Denver Center, Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Wallis Annenberg, Getty Villa. Film/TV includes Easter Sunday, “FBI,” “Young Sheldon,” “Call Me Kat,” “Mom,” “This Is Us,” “The Kominsky Method,” “NCIS,” “Kingdom,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Major Crimes,” “Gotham” and “True Blood.” @themelodybutiu
Tony Carlin
u/s Elliot Emerson
Broadway: over 30 productions including Eureka Day, Days of Wine and Roses, The Lehman Trilogy, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Fish in the Dark, All the Way, JUNK, Spring Awakening and Mamma Mia! Recently, George Street: An Old-Fashioned Family Murder. TV: “The Gilded Age,” “Madam Secretary,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Blacklist,” “Star Trek Voyager,” “Seinfeld” (finale). Film: The Bourne Legacy, The Nutty Professor. Thanks to Gray Talent, Susan, Connor and Grace.
Ka-Ling Cheung
u/s Melissa Han
Broadway debut! Broadway tour: War Horse. National tour: The King and I. London: Wild Swans (Young Vic). NYC: Golden Shield. TV: “Law & Order,” “Evil,” “The Other Two,” “East NY,” “Uncoupled,” “Broad City,” “Bull,” “Elementary.” Dialect coach: MTC, Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre. Ka-Ling is the BFA program director at The New School. MFA from A.C.T. Proud member of The Actors Center.
Sophie Hayden
u/s Ruth Ackerman, Penny Buell
Broadway: Rosabella in Most Happy Fella (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Adrianna in Comedy of Errors (Lincoln Center and PBS’ “Great Performances”), Edith Frank in Diary of Anne Frank, Amy in The Show-Off (Roundabout), Barnum, Whoopee! Off-Broadway: Karen in Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts); Louise in Nine Armenians (MTC); Amalia in She Loves Me (Playwrights Horizons). Goodman Theatre (Joseph Jefferson nomination), Northwestern University.
Stacy Highsmith
u/s Kyra Marshall
is excited to be returning to the New York City theatre scene to join the cast of The Balusters. She is a graduate of The University of North Carolina School of the Arts and her credits include various Off-Broadway performances as well as TV. She could most recently be seen in “9-1-1: Lonestar,” “American Horror Story” and “Shameless.”
Mike Iveson
u/s Alan Kirby
Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me. West End: Gatz. Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure, Arguendo, Plenty (The Public); The Sound and the Fury, The Select (NYTW); DOT, The World My Mama Raised (Clubbed Thumb). Regional: Guthrie, Kennedy Center, Miami New Drama, Saco River Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Screen: West Side Story, Alone Together, “Tulsa King,” “Orange Is the New Black.” Company member, Elevator Repair Service; board member, Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris, Maine.
Alvin Keith
u/s Brooks Duncan
Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Recent Off-Broadway/NY: Gingold Group, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Apollo Theater. Regional favorites: Master Harold…and the Boys (Schoolhouse Theater; Best Performer in a Play BroadwayWorld Rockland/Westchester), The Oresteia (Shakespeare Theatre Company; dir. Michael Kahn), Windfall (Arkansas Rep; dir. Jason Alexander). Recent film/TV: “Where are you, Christmas?” (Hallmark), “12 Days of Christmas Eve” (Lifetime), Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Lena Pepe
u/s Willow Gibbons
is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut! Off-Broadway: Cornelia Street (Atlantic Theater Company). Select regional: I’m Not Rappaport with Judd Hirsch (Shadowland Stages). TV/film: “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy,” The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo. BA, Vassar College. Endless love to her family and friends.
Luis Vega
u/s Isaac Rosario
NYC: Spread (INTAR); Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater), The Gett (Rattlestick), Hindsight (Fault Line), The Underlying Chris (Second Stage), Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic Theater). National tours: The Humans. Regional: Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Denver Center, Williamstown, The Old Globe, Guthrie. Film: Another Earth (Fox Searchlight). TV: “Elsbeth,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Fight,” “Madam Secretary.” Education: MFA, UCSD.
Melody Butiu
u/s Luz Baccay
Tony Carlin
u/s Elliot Emerson
Ka-Ling Cheung
u/s Melissa Han
Sophie Hayden
u/s Ruth Ackerman, Penny Buell
Stacy Highsmith
u/s Kyra Marshall
Mike Iveson
u/s Alan Kirby
Alvin Keith
u/s Brooks Duncan
Lena Pepe
u/s Willow Gibbons
Luis Vega
u/s Isaac Rosario
Creative
David Lindsay-Abaire
Playwright
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and librettist. His most recent show, the musical Kimberly Akimbo, written with composer Jeanine Tesori, premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, where it won the Lortel, NYDCC, OCC and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical before it moved to Broadway and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. His play Good People premiered on Broadway at MTC, was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Horton Foote Prize, The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and two Tony nominations. His play Rabbit Hole also premiered on Broadway at MTC and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five Tony nominations, and the Spirit of America Award. David also wrote the book and lyrics for Shrek the Musical (Jeanine Tesori, composer), which was nominated for eight Tonys, four Oliviers, a Grammy, and earned David the Kleban Prize as America’s most promising musical theatre lyricist. David’s other plays include Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo andWonder of the World, which all premiered at MTC, as well as A Devil Inside at Soho Rep. In addition to his work in theatre, David’s screen credits include his film adaptation of Rabbit Hole (starring Nicole Kidman, Oscar nomination), Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians, and The Family Fang, among others. He is also, along with Tanya Barfield, Co-Director of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School.
Kenny Leon
Director
Tony Award-winning director. Broadway: Othello; Our Town; HOME; Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch; Topdog/Underdog; Ohio State Murders; A Soldier’s Play; American Son; Children of a Lesser God; Holler If Ya Hear Me; A Raisin in the Sun; The Mountaintop; Stick Fly; August Wilson’s Fences, Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf. Off-Broadway: King James (MTC); The Underlying Chris; Everybody’s Ruby; Emergence-See! (The Public); Smart People (Second Stage). Opera: Margaret Garner. Television: “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia,” “Colin in Black & White,” “4400,” “Amend: The Fight for America,” American Son (adapted for Netflix), Hairspray Live!, The Wiz Live!, Steel Magnolias, “Dynasty,” In My Dreams. Author: Take You Wherever You Go. Artistic Director Emeritus: Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company. Senior Resident Director: Roundabout Theatre Company. Awards: Obie, Actors Fund Medal of Honor, George Abbott Lifetime Achievement for American Theatre, Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre.
Derek McLane
Scenic Design
Set designs include Broadway: Death Becomes Her (Tony nomination), Just in Time (Tony nomination), Othello, Purlie Victorious (Tony nomination), MJ (Tony nomination), Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), A Soldier’s Play, The Price, Beautiful, Gigi, 33 Variations (Tony Award), How to Succeed in Business…, Follies, Anything Goes, Ragtime, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. Television: six years of Academy Awards (Emmy Award), four NBC musicals, including “Hairspray Live!” (Emmy Award). Board chairman of The New Group theatre, awards include multiple Tony Awards, Emmys, Obies, Drama Desks, Lortel Awards and Art Directors Guild Awards. Designed the 2024 and 2025 Met Galas.
Emilio Sosa
Costume Design
is a five-time Tony Award–nominated costume designer. His Broadway credits include Sweeney Todd; A Beautiful Noise; Ain’t No Mo’; 1776; Good Night, Oscar; Motown: The Musical; On Your Feet!; Trouble in Mind; Porgy & Bess; and Purlie Victorious. His most recent projects are Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert, Masquerade and Chez Joey. He has designed the Radio City Music Hall New York Spring Spectacular and Christmas shows. As well as Usher, Mariah Carey, Diana Ross and Gloria Estefan, to name a few, and appeared on TV’s “Project Runway.” As the former chair of the American Theatre Wing, Emilio continues to champion access and representation in the arts. @esosafashion
Allen Lee Hughes
Lighting Design
Broadway: Our Town, Home, Topdog/Underdog, Ohio State Murders, A Soldier’s Play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne
Park, Having Our Say, Mule Bone, Once on This Island, K2, Strange Interlude and others. His work has been seen at major theatres including A.C.T., McCarter, Seattle Rep, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Roundabout Theatre and Playwrights Horizons. Honors: four Tony nominations, an Outer Critics Circle Award, USITT Distinguished Achievement, Hewes Award, Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration and two Helen Hayes awards. He teaches at NYU and the fellows program at Arena Stage bears his name.
Dan Moses Schreier
Original Music and Sound Design
Broadway designs include Floyd Collins, The Iceman Cometh, American Psycho, world premieres of August Wilson’s Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean, Gypsy (2008), Sondheim on Sondheim, A Little Night Music, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Pacific Overtures, Topdog/Underdog, Into the Woods and Noise/Funk. Seven productions with Richard Foreman and The Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Compositions for Broadway include The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Glass Menagerie, Major Barbara, The Tempest. Awards: six Tony Award nominations, five Drama Desk Awards, Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, Lucille Lortel Award. Fellow of MacDowell. danmosesschreier.com
J. Jared Janas
Hair & Make-up Design
Select Broadway: Punch; Dead Outlaw; John Proctor Is the Villain; Glengarry Glen Ross; Buena Vista Social Club; Our Town; Once Upon a Mattress; Mary Jane; Prayer for the French Republic; Purlie Victorious; Good Night, Oscar; Sweeney Todd…; Ohio State Murders; Jagged Little Pill; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Gettin’ the Band Back Together; Bandstand; Indecent; Sunset Boulevard; The Visit; The Real Thing; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; Motown; Peter and the Starcatcher; and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Recent Off-Broadway: Masquerade, Sally & Tom (The Public, Drama Desk nomination) and Yours Unfaithfully (Mint Theatre, Drama Desk nomination)
Thomas Schall
Fight Direction
Broadway: over 100 shows. Buena Vista Social Club, Waiting for Godot, Othello, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play (Drama Desk award, fight choreography), Cost of Living, The Cottage, The Kite Runner, True West, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jitney, War Horse, Romeo and Juliet. At The Public Theater: Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Mother Courage. At NY Theatre Workshop: Red Speedo, Othello (Drama Desk nomination, fight choreography). At The Armory: The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk nomination, fight choreography), Hamlet, Judgment Day.
Deborah Hecht
Vocal Coach
Broadway: over 100 productions, including Ragtime, The Great Gatsby, Sweeney Todd, How I Learned to Drive, Hangmen, Angels in America (original and recent Broadway productions), The Ferryman. The full list can be seen at IMBdb.com. Off-Broadway: Encores! Ragtime, Titanic; hundreds of productions including Playwrights Horizons (Prince Faggot), MCC, MTC, Signature (Grangeville), the Vineyard, Laura Pels, others. Regional/International: Geffen Playhouse (Master Harold and the Boys), LaJolla Playhouse (Working Girl), Berkeley Rep (Harry Clarke with Billy Crudup), Seattle Rep, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Huntington, others. International: Royal National Theatre (Buried Child), RSC (The Winter’s Tale), West End (Harry Clarke). Film: Moana (upcoming), All the Money in the World, Under the Skin, others. TV: many, including “Tokyo Vice” and “We Were the Lucky Ones.”
Ioana Alfonso
Movement & Associate Director
Othello (starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal), Purlie Victorious, Topdog/Underdog, American Son, Kiss of the Spider Woman (workshop), Soul Train (workshop); NBC’s “Hairspray Live!” and “The Wiz Live!” Director: Culture Shock, Un-Hero’s Journey. Choreographer: LCT’s Amahl…Night Visitors (also associate director), solo for NYCB’s Tiler Peck with Black Thought. Associate choreographer: Holler If Ya Hear Me (Broadway), Bare, works with Mia Michaels. As actor: Dancin’ (OBC revival), Wicked (OBC), 9 to 5 (OBC), “Orange Is the New Black,” “Broad City,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Smash,” “Law & Order: SVU,” In the Heights, Across the Universe. Tony-nominated co-producer of Buena Vista Social Club (Broadway).
Caparelliotis Casting/Kelly Gillespie
Casting
Select MTC: Cost of Living; Summer, 1976; Skeleton Crew; Ink. Select Broadway/Off-Broadway: 2:22 A Ghost Story (upcoming), Grey House, The Comeuppance, Ohio State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, Sunset Baby, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band. Select theatres: Signature NYC, Atlantic, Ars Nova, The Old Globe, CTG, Donmar Warehouse (consulting CD). Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC, series casting), “The Boys in the Band” (Netflix, original casting).
Tripp Phillips
Production Stage Manager
Broadway credits including Real Women Have Curves, The Roommate, Tommy, Mr. Saturday Night, Plaza Suite, All My Sons, Carousel, War Paint, The Front Page, Finding Neverland, Macbeth, A Gentleman’s Guide…, Born Yesterday, Lombardi, Finian’s Rainbow, Pal Joey, Passing Strange, The Ritz, 42nd Street, Swing!, Ring Round the Moon and Dream. National tours include Memphis, A Christmas Story, Jersey Boys and White Christmas. Off-Broadway includes Tom Hanks’ This World of Tomorrow, Tin Pan
Alley Rag, The Paris Letter, Lone Star Love, Oedipus and Once in a Lifetime.
Janette Braggs
Stage Manager
is so excited to be making her Manhattan Theatre Club debut! Select past credits include the following. Broadway: Romeo + Juliet, Hamilton, Beetlejuice the Musical. Off Broadway: Romy & Michele, Jelly’s Last Jam, Trevor the Musical. First national tour: Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, The Prom. She sends all her love to her family and friends (hey, BBB!). You can keep up with her shenanigans around the city on IG: @janettebraggs.
David Lindsay-Abaire
Playwright
Kenny Leon
Director
Derek McLane
Scenic Design
Emilio Sosa
Costume Design
Allen Lee Hughes
Lighting Design
Dan Moses Schreier
Original Music and Sound Design
J. Jared Janas
Hair & Make-up Design
Thomas Schall
Fight Direction
Deborah Hecht
Vocal Coach
Ioana Alfonso
Movement & Associate Director
Caparelliotis Casting/Kelly Gillespie
Casting
Tripp Phillips
Production Stage Manager
Janette Braggs
Stage Manager